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Easy Crafts For Kids That Do Not Cost a Fortune
By Lee Stevens
With easy crafts for kids you want to keep your toddlers busy but not
have it cost a fortune. Well with these easy crafts your kids can do
them for hardly anything or even completely free. So take a look below
at some of these simple to do kids crafts.
Rock painting for kids
A real simple old fashioned craft for kids to enjoy. Why not on your
next walk in the country or even just around the neighborhood. Keep a
look out for some medium size stones or pebbles. Collect these up and
take them home. Then outside lay the rocks out and get a bucket of water
and a small brush. Then get your kids to clean them up and lay them out
to dry.
Then later your toddlers can use kids acrylic paints to paint some
designs on them. They could simply put spots on them or even suggest
they do one with stripes and a few spots. This craft activity with the
walk and the cleaning. Then the painting could occupy them for a good
part of the day.
Make a collage picture
Now this a really simple one for a child of any age. Save a breakfast
cereal packet. Then cut out one side of the box and use it gray side up
for the base of the collage. Next collect together all sorts of odd and
ends. Old magazines that can have pictures cut out. Bits of ribbons, old
buttons. Bits of cotton wool odd bits of fabric, basically anything that
is not too heavy.
Then place all your items onto the table around your collage base. Then
give you toddler glue stick(the kind that winds up like a lipstick).
Then tell them to do some cutting and sticking (let them use child
friendly scissors). You may need to help them cut things like the
fabric. There you have it a really great way for your little one to be
really creative. also to work on their motor skills using the glue stick
and scissors.
Paper plate faces
Most of us with kids have paper plates at home from parties of one kind
or another. So give a plate to your toddler and ask them to make it in
to a face of someone they know. We have used pipe cleaners and different
size buttons and some old ribbon amongst other things to make the eyes,
nose, mouth and ears. You can also use knitting wool to create the hair.
Anything can be used as long as it will stick. So why not give this a
try and see how much your little one enjoys making a paper face.
Important Point
With all toddler crafts you must supervise at all times. One to stop
them sticking glue everywhere. Far more importantly to stop them putting
small items into their mouths and swallowing. This could very easily
lead to your child choking. So only get involved with craft activities
with very young children when you have the time to watch over them. They
will also want you to share this kind of activity with anyway.
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